page_title: Recherswil
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Recherswil / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Kneippism place at the rill Ösch near Recherswil; Solothurn, Switzerland. Deutsch: Kneippstelle an der Ösch bei Recherswil; Solothurn, Schweiz.
context_page_description: Recherswil is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt, in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Recherswil has an area, as of 2009, of 3.37 square kilometers (1.30 sq mi).  Of this area, 1.86 km² (0.72 sq mi) or 55.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.74 km² (0.29 sq mi) or 22.0% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.7 km² (0.27 sq mi) or 20.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and 0.02 km² (4.9 acres) or 0.6% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.1%.  Out of the forested land, 20.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 43.6% is used for growing crops and 9.2% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The municipality is located in the Wasseramt district, between the Emme and Oesch rivers.
caption: Kneippism[citation needed] site in Recherswil
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